torrent

• n. 流れる；注ぐ；はじける；連続する
• n. （トレント）人名；（仏）Toland；（スペイン語）Torrent

ラテン語のtorrere「燃やす」、PIE*ters「乾燥した」から。比喩的な用法で、後に急流、乱流を指すようになり、熱湯の轟音からこう呼ばれるようになった。

torrent

torrent: [17] Despite its firm connections with ‘water’, torrent comes from a source that meant ‘scorch, parch’. This was Latin torrēre, which also produced English toast and torrid [16] and is related to thirst. Its present participle torrēns was used metaphorically as an adjective of streams that ‘boil’ or ‘bubble’ because of their strong current, and it was in this sense that it passed as a noun via Italian torrente and French torrent into English.
=> thirst, toast, torrid

torrent (n.)

"rapid stream," c. 1600, from Middle French torrent (16c.) and directly from Latin torrentem (nominative torrens) "rushing, roaring" (of streams), also "a rushing stream," originally as an adjective "roaring, boiling, burning, parching, hot, inflamed," present participle of torrere "to parch" (see terrain). Extension to any onrush (of words, feelings, etc.) first recorded 1640s.

1. They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.

彼らは押し合いへし合いされ、激しい罵倒攻撃を受けた。

2.The field trip involved crossing a raging torrent .

実地調査時には流れの速い川を渡る必要があります。

3.The trip involved crossing a raging torrent .

旅先では勢いの強い急流を通り抜けなければならない。

4.The stream had become a raging torrent .

小川が荒れ狂う急流になった。

5.After the winter rains,the stream becomes a raging torrent .

冬の雨の後、渓流は急に流れた。